The Negatives of Animal Testing

There are so many products being tested on animals , from being lipsticks, shampoos, makeup, skin care etc. But have you ever wondered the side effects these animals experience while using these products? They will experience Burning, torturing, pain, hunger, thirst etc. How is living in a cage living? It's not it is just surviving.

Not very many people think about the fact that a majority of the products they buy have been tested on animals, let alone animal testing in general. Animal testing has been going on for many years, with the use of dogs, cats, mice, rabbits, mini pigs, and farm animals. When someone brings up animal testing there usually is an argument about the pros and cons. Many people are against it because the animals are being harmed in the process. There are a few different ways to look at animal testing, lets get into them.

In this project ,my group members focus on the effect and alternatives of animal testing. Animal testing also known as animal experimentation or in-vivo research is the use of non-human animals in experiments, in other words, it is the procedure performed on living animals for purposes of research into basic biology and diseases. For example, test new medical products, to make sure it is safe for human use. There are many different species are used around the world, but the most common include mice, monkey, fish, rats, rabbits, hamsters, birds, cats, dogs. And farm animals,

Animals feel pain and suffering just like humans which makes all the tests and injections all painful for

Animal testing has been around since 500 B.C, and dissecting animals began in the 2nd century. Descriptions in ancient greek writing telling about dissecting live animals was found and

Numerous years ago, animal testing was started to help humans obtain information. The process of testing on animals is, quite possibly, one of the most disturbing experiments ever performed. Many cosmetics and personal care products are manufactured every year and put into the market

Every year more than 100 million animals die in United States laboratories due to animal experimentation (PETA). Animal testing first began in the fifth century BC when Greek Philosopher Alcmaeon of Croton conducted a vivisection, cutting or operating on a live animal for scientific purpose, of a dog’s eye to learn what causes blindness (“Animal Experimentation”). Animal testing and experimentation has been frequent in society since then; however, the experiments have become controversial. In the early seventeenth century, scientist began working on the animals that had died so there would be no harm caused to them; unfortunately, the physical processes in these animals had stopped and the experiments were unreliable so they returned to the practice of vivisection.

Descriptions of the dissection of live animals have been found in ancient greek writings from as early as circa 500 BC. During this period animals were used for two things, to understand how anesthetics worked and to use them for medical clarification. In the early 19th century the use of domestic pets started to become more popular in England. To this day there is still animal testing, however they are starting to put more regulations and laws on it.

There are numerous studies that document the failure of animal testing. Scientific studies have documented failures of animal testing, which is not surprising given the many differences that exist between human and animal species in terms of their anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and metabolism. Although animal testing has helped us, it has also led us down countless scientific dead ends, while detracting attention and funds from more applicable scientific techniques. In reality, animal research never guarantees that medications and other products will be safe and effective for us humans. Most drugs that were previously tested on other animals have been pulled off the market because they caused severe illness or death in human patients (France

Almost every medicine that can be found in an average person’s medicine cabinet has been tested on an animal at one point or another. A government funded corporation called the Food and Drug Administration, abbreviated as the FDA, is in charge of making sure that all drugs, cosmetics, biological products, and more are efficient, secure, and safe for human usage. The FDA will not allow any drug to be released or sold to the human population if it has not first been tested on animals. In fact, when a drug is first created it is tested on animals before humans are even allowed to test the drug at clinical trial centers. Whether or not animal testing should be done for scientific purposes, has been a widely argued topic for many years

It has been proven that they can feel emotions since they react to things that could affect them; for example, if animals see something that could be dangerous for them, they will react with fear. Since animals have mental processes and thoughts, it means that they are conscious creatures that can feel emotions and pain. Animals that are used in experiments are kept isolated in cages, lonely and afraid. Just like us, most animals need to be around other animals, but they are forced to deal with cruel treatment by themselves. They are constantly in fear of being tested on, and it doesn’t help that they have to watch other animals get killed. Animals are naturally empathetic and try to help others, and in the past, they have helped protect animals and humans from predators. Because animals feel for other animals and aren’t able to help themselves or others, they are constantly in distress as

Animal tests a lot of the time are unreliable, they make those human trials all the more risky. (Animal Testing Is Bad Science: Point/Counterpoint). A static taken from the Food and Drug Administration shows that more than half, 92%, of all the drugs that are safe and work on animals, DON’T work on humans. Also the 8% of drugs that have been authorized for human consumption have had to been relabeled because of the many side effects that did not show up in the tests on animals. Drugs like Vioxx, Oraflex, Suprol and a handful of many others have been recalled in recent years because of the reactions that humans had when taking them. A paper published from the Yale School of Medicine, “Where is the evident That Animal Research Benefits Humans?’, goes on to explain that in animal used studies there was very little to no evidence that showed experimentation on animals has ever benefited humans. Fact is, that many advances in the medicine and health field are because of human studies, one example of that is the discovery of the relationship between cholesterol and heart disease and also the development of X-rays. (Animal Testing Is Bad Science:

In the United States alone, over 100 million animals are injured and killed in the name of science. Animals are poisoned, burned, and blinded everyday in product tests for numerous industries such as household cleaning, cosmetics, and manufacturers of personal care products. Even though many companies have banned the testing of their products on animals, some corporations continue to put chemicals into animals’ eyes and onto the shaven skin without any form of pain relief. No doubt is this form of testing cruel, especially now that scientists have began developing new advanced ways to tests products that are quicker and more cost effective. These tests are also increasingly more accurate than the endangering of animals method of testing. Some

Imagine you are locked in a closet with no access to the outside world or any communications at all. You can’t decide when or what you will eat or drink. You can’t decide who will be your mate or if you’ll have children. You can’t even decide if you want air. It’s like being prisoner even though you have committed no crime. It is isolating, painful, and lonely. This is what it’s like to live as an animal suffering under experimentally cruelty in laboratory facilities. Animals such as dogs, cats, rats, turtles, monkeys, frogs, guinea pigs, goats, and lizards are forced to contribute to these horrible experiments that involve spine crushing, jaw twisting, injections of lethal chemicals, drowned, or frozen, and sometimes even electrocuted to death by implanting wires into their brains. No animals should ever have to live through this, which is why I firmly believe in stopping animal experimentation.

Animal rights are not as protective as they should be. The topic of animal testing probably evokes images of animals being viciously injected or force fed pills. This is because it is the reality of what animal testing has been for the previous decades. Testing on animals for the benefit of humans is cruel and hurtful to the animals being tested upon. Animals feel the same level of pain that a human does, so why does it make it okay to test unknown substances on a lab rat just because it is smaller and weaker?  In recent years potential animal testing alternatives have shown up, yet it is still highly underused. I agree wholeheartedly that testing products and chemicals on animals for human gain is simply wrong. In this essay I will argue to protect the lives of animals by expressing how cruel animal testing is and how it is the wrong method of testing.